Iain Haley Pollock

Flights & Litanies Against Delimiting the Tradition

To define the style of our house (Georgian, Federalist, Arts & Crafts, Shotgun, clapboard, adobe, Denver Square, Miami Modern) is to put privet hedge around it. Fence (topped with barbwire?) around it. Brick wall (topped with broken bottles?) around it. And this begs: will the gate open for you? For even "we" who wrought it?

Here, instead, is no blueprint, no schematic, at best a line drawing in the silt, and too the mud & brick, the timber & gypsum & hide, the rubber & plastic we used: